Word: whitmans
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Cedric H. Whitman '43, professor of Greek and Latin, will become the first Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature next fall. Whitman has taught at Harvard since...
...Cabinet, Johnson named hard-driving Robert E. Kintner, 56, who just three months ago left his $200,000-a-year job as president of the National Broadcasting Co. (after a well-muffled company dispute). Less surprisingly but no less provocatively, he named as a special presidential assistant Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, a Kennedy-picked M.I.T. economic history professor who served as a White House aide before but left in 1961 to become a State Department policymaker because he did not get along with McGeorge Bundy...
...inherited from the Enlightenment: lucidity, irony, skepticism, intellectual curiosity, combined with the impassioned intensity and enhanced sensibility of the Romantics, their rebellion and sense of technical experiment, their awareness of living in a tragic age. The generation which reconciled these opposites was that of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Dostoevsky, of Whitman, Melville and Ruskin, of Edmond de Goncourt and Matthew Arnold, to which one might add Renan and Turgenev ... all these artists reach...
...Evaluation Committee, a Radcliffe committee which has been working under the direction of Susan S. Olson, Dean of Residence. This committee strongly recommended that Radcliffe Houses be allowed to retain sit-down meals part of the time. For example, in East House, Cabot Hall might serve only buffet and Whitman Hall might serve sit-down meals, at least on interhousing nights. "Nobody wants to lose the personal flavor of the dining atmosphere," Miss Olson said. The recommendations of this committee will be presented to RGA March 31 for final discussion and approval...
...Cullers' introduction is dedicated to the other proposition. Again, he's writing for the chauvinists, who will also be amused by the inside story of the Advocate's self-definition. The magazine that was conceived as a college newspaper and published polemics on compulsory chapel, college cheers, and Walt Whitman (all re-printed here) has also considered itself a literary magazine, a gathering place for Cambridge literati, a political forum, and a socially-exclusive club. Culler includes all the anecdotes about the magazine's clandestine establishment, its raucous anniversary parties, its scrapes with the Cambridge authorities and Massachusetts censors...